Disability Living Allowance: Care Homes

Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  when he expects to announce the outcome of his review of the proposal to withdraw the mobility component of disability living allowance from people in residential care;
	(2)  what process his Department will follow to resolve any overlap in funding of the mobility component of the disability living allowance to people in residential care homes.

Maria Miller: Officials in the Department for Work and Pensions are considering existing evidence and gathering more to determine the extent to which there are overlaps in provision for mobility needs of people in residential care homes. This work should be completed shortly and we will then make a final decision on the way forward. We are committed to getting this right to ensure that disabled people are able to get out and about and live independently. Any changes will be rotted into the introduction of personal independence payment from April 2013.

Police: Ports

Jackie Doyle-Price: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to alter the jurisdiction of port police forces.

Nick Herbert: As I have previously said in correspondence with my hon. Friend, officials at the Home Office and the Department for Transport are exploring a range of potential legislative options to address the issues that she has raised around the jurisdiction of port police forces.

Pupils: Disadvantaged

Nicholas Dakin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many 16 to 18 year olds in schools are (a) entitled to and (b) receive free school meals.

Nick Gibb: The information available on the number of pupils eligible for and claiming free school meals by age as at January 2011, is published in table 3a of the Statistical First Release “Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics, January 2011” available at
	http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s001012/index.shtml
	Information on pupils who may be entitled but do not make a claim is not centrally collected.